Chuck..here we come!

Madison's party was at Chuck E Cheese yesterday. We had a great turnout of family and friends (old friends from the neighborhood and squadron and new friends from Maddy's preschool class). It was great to see all of the kids play and interact together outside of school.

Here are some pictures from the party.

Maddy's school birthday

Today the preschool class celebrated Madison's 4 th Birthday. She got to wear the birthday hat, a pin with her name on it, the children ate cookie cake and juice for snack (picked out by Maddy) and sang her "Happy Birthday".

We are celebrating her actual birthday on Sunday at Chuck E. Cheese---just the chaos we need around here. Until then.....here is a little picture to tide you over.

Last football game

I found my brick at the Rec center. COOL BEANS!

Madison was scratching off lottery tickets---hmmmm maybe not the best thing to teach a 3 year old

The Chefs--we had brisket and sausage on Saturday. I was so yummy!

Canada anyone?

we are thinking about moving to Canada. Eric has always wanted to see the sights and I hear they have great preschools there! Anyone want to tag along?

SIKE--I am just bummed about the election results.

On a different note, how do you like the turkey background? I choose it for Madison since her birthday is so close to Thanksgiving.

Halloween fun

Madison choose to be Jasmin this year and Katelyn was forced to be a celestial witch. She refused to wear the hat and we had a difficult time (at first) putting on the costume. She finally adjusted to it and seemed to have a great time. Although, she would not go to anyone's door for trick or treating. She would cry and pull my hand so that I would keep walking. However, she did finally go to one door and say "dada" and they gave her a pencil!

Eric was a "race car driver". I don't understand his crazy sense of humor but Katelyn wasn't sure about him either.

Eric and Jerry

from Big Brother---he was at the game today and Eric got a photo with him....cool???

Parade of Costumes

Today was the Costume Parade at Madison's Preschool. All of the children were so darling. The teachers were dressed as crayons and they led the children around the courtyard in front of all of the parents who were busy snapping pictures and video recording.

Kate had to dress for the parade too-how cute is that outfit??

The highlight of the day for Maddy was when she got to talk into a microphone in front of all the other children and said her name and what her costume was. I can only imagine!

Spooky

We are ready for Halloween. The girls have their costumes. The spiders have spun their webs on the lights and mantel. The pumpkins are carved. The candy is in the cauldron. The meat is ready to make into sloppy joes (A Gutierrez family tradition).

Weekend update: We were in Pearland over the weekend and stayed at the Benoit's. Madison had so much fun playing with Lexi. The girls have been friends since before birth and it is really neat to watch them grow up together (180 miles apart).

Kim's street had a li ttle festival for the kids on Saturday afternoon. They had pumpkin toss, pumpkin bobbing (with a net), face painting, bag walk, and much more. Maddy had so much fun that as soon as she took off her Jasmin costume, she fell fast asleep!

It is always great to visit friends back home to reconnect our friendships. I will never forget playing UNO (double cards Alex?) scatagories (ALEX) and cranium (smack-kiss-Kim). I can honestly say that I didn't know any cheating was going on!!! I am a retard!

On a different note:
My dear friend Becky decided on her wedding dress at Weddings by Debbie in Houston. I am so glad that I got to be a part of her special day. She also got her beautiful ring that day (she was waiting on it to be custom made from her mother's diamond). She will be the talk of Baytown in the dress she choose. It is stunning and I am so happy for her and her fiancee. I can't wait to meet him! HINT HINT BECKY.

Aggieland

Camaryn and Madison went to Midnight Yell together. They were so cute in their matching overalls. They even wore Eric's old bonfire pots during yell! So cute.


We took the kids to their FIRST AGGIE FOOTBALL GAME this weekend with Rob, Gwen, Camaryn and Landon. It was so much fun. The kids did so great. We had lots of snacks, toys, and drinks. Our seats were great (way high on the 3rd deck) with a great view. The people behind us ( the last row of Kyle Field) really understood having kids at the games because they had those seats since the 80's and raised grandkids on the back row (back when kids under 13 were free). I wish that was still the case because we would definitely make it to more games.

We tailgated after the game with our families, the Sawyer's, and the Daugherty's. We closed down Reed tailgating and we would have stayed longer if we had lights (note to self---get lights). Eric and I picked up Freebirds on the way back to the hotel and it was YUMMY!

Today we met up with Rob and Gwen and took photos on campus. So fun for us to walk around, unfortunately, not so fun for the kids. They wanted to play in the grass and mud and we wanted pictures. O well --we did get some great ones afterall.

We also took the girls to The Chicken (for the 1st time) for lunch. So fun.